ON PUBLIC SAFETY

• Added more than 500 police officers to L.A. neighborhoods and saw double-digit reductions in crime in all three police divisions in district.
• Helped double funding for city youth and gang intervention.
• Voted to expand ten-person firefighter crews and new ambulances.
• Protected Domestic Abuse Response Teams (DART)

ON NEIGHBORHOOD BEAUTIFICATION

• Implemented “furniture-buster” crews to proactively take trash and furniture off city streets; removed more than 2 million pounds of trash off CD13 streets.
• Launched innovative anti-graffiti program with Chief Bratton, Uniting Neighborhoods To Abolish Graffiti (UNTAG); painted out more than 100,000 square feet of graffiti.
• Expanded spay and neuter programs to help manage animal population, boosting the number of free sterilizations provided to low-income areas by more than 10,000.

ON PARKS AND ENVIRONMENT

• Opened fifteen new parks in district (an increase of 100%) and championed Neighborhood Land Trust to add pocket parks and community gardens to city.
• Led the fight for clean water in our neighborhoods with a Clean Water Bond.
• Passed the nation’s largest green building ordinance.
• Successfully pushed for green power production, including solar power.
• Helped fund fleet conversion for LA City to alternative fuel and hybrid vehicles.
  

ON BUSINESS AND ECONOMY

• Helped bring 3,000 new jobs to CD13 and LA City.
• Launched the innovative Healthcare Career Ladder training program.
• Passed the Superstore Ordinance to promote responsible neighborhood development.
• Co-led campaign to reduce city business tax.
• Oversaw reform of city contracting process as co-chair of Small and Local Business Advisory Committee.

ON HOUSING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

• Championed the funding of more than $180 million to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund.
• Expanded funding for city homeless shelters to provide year-round aid.
• Overhauled community development block grant funding for City.
• Launched the multi-benefit initiative to provide literacy, education, health and financial literacy programs to LA families.
  

ON EDUCATION

• Expanded after-school programs in eight district schools.
• Pioneered joint-use of school facilities to promote “neighborhood schools.”
• Supported fifteen school construction projects underway in district.
• Helped champion Free Cash for College, nation’s largest college scholarship fair.
  

ON CIVIL RIGHTS

• Established the first Office of Immigrant Affairs.
• Wrote Sweat-Free Ordinance to combat sweatshop labor in Los Angeles.
• Championed legislation recognizing matricula cards for identification.
• Expanded Equal Benefits Ordinance to apply to all city contractors.
• Secured funding for implementation of Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Los Angeles.
  

ON GOVERNMENT ACCESSIBILILTY

• Met face-to-face with over one thousand constituents at trademark bi-weekly office hours.
• Launched “Neighbor-to-Neighbor,” a program of monthly door-to-door neighborhood walks with community leaders.
• Held house coffees in every neighborhood of the district.
• Launched and graduated eight classes of CD13 Leadership Academy to train new grassroots leaders in civic engagement and neighborhood advocacy.